Jack Snipe and Brent Geese on Severnside
Golden Plover at Bristol Airport
Bewick's Swans, Red-crested Pochards, Great White Egrets, & Water Pipit on the reservoirs
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| Robin to start the day (Paul Milo Milsom) |
Greenbank, Easton:
6 Fieldfare
Aust Wharf:
1 Jack Snipe, 3 Common Snipe, 1 Kestrel, 40+ Redwing, 3 Skylarks, 1 Meadow Pipit
New Passage/Northwick:
38 Canada Geese, 7 Brent Geese, 5 Shelduck, 16 Wigeon on pools, 200+ Wigeon on sea, 4 Gadwall,
8 Teal, 14 Shoveler, 1 Cormorant, 1 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Kestrel, 2 Little Grebe, 10 Coot, 150+ Knot, 75 Lapwing, 25 Curlew, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Turnstone, 60+ Common Gull,
1 GBB Gull, 6 Pied wagtail, 3 Meadow Pipit
Latteridge:
Several Fieldfares and Redwing
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| 24-11-16 Black Redstart (David Raymond) One female of two+ on beach near pier at Clevedon |
2 or 3 Black Redstarts
Bristol Airport:
20 Golden Plover, a pair of Ravens
Willsbridge:
3 Jay, 1 Dipper, 15 Blue & Great Tit, 20 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Redwing, 4 Goldfinch, 1 Chaffinch,
2 Bullfinch
Keynsham:
Mute Swan sat on road at the junction of Charlton Rd and Charlton Pk. Protected by a van and driver as Police arrived to deal with it
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| 24-11-16 Ravens at Chew (Ian Stapp) Ravens were reported at Newton St Loe and Chew |
3 Teal, 37 Mallard, 1 Cormorant, 2 Buzzard, 3 Moorhen, 1 Coot, 40+ BH Gull, 2 Collared Dove,
4 Raven, party of Goldcrest and Blue, Great and Coal Tits, 25+ Redwing, 5+ Mistle Thrush,
1 m Stonechat, 3 Pied Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, Goldfinch, Chaffinch
Barrow Tanks:
1 Brent Goose (dark bellied), 2 Wigeon, 1 Gadwall, 25+ Teal, 14 Shoveler, 6 Pochard, 9 Lapwing
Blagdon Lake:
The water level continues to rise. 16 Bewick's Swans, 2 ad♂ Red-crested Pochards, 14 Little Egrets, 4 Great White Egrets, several flocks of Starlings (a passage migrant and winter visitor to the lake these days)
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| 24-11-16 Wigeon (Mrs Trellis) Unusual at Litton Reservoir |
1 Wigeon, 11 Cormorant, 12 Little Grebe, 1 Kingfisher, 7 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Goldcrest,
2 Nuthatch, 2 Bullfinch.
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The unpopular heavily vandalised 'hide' on the Bittern Trail is being taken down. It is understood a more conventional and hopefully vandal-proof hide will replace it. The Bittern Trail is closed for the foreseeable future as the wooden boardwalk has fallen into disrepair
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| 24-11-16 Meadow Pipit at Chew (Ian Stapp) |
Woodford:
8 Goosander (3 m 5 f in the lee of Denny), 1 Great White Egret (on Denny), 1 Green Woodpecker (car park), 1 Kingfisher
Heron's Green:
148 Canada Goose (on the flooded pond), 1 Shelduck (pond), 2 Goosander (f), 1 Little Egret,
1 Great White Egret, 1 Water Rail (pond), 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Ravens (fly over),
200+ Starlings (in the reeds in the pond), 3 Meadow Pipit (wall)
Moreton:
2 Scaup, 2 Goosander (f), 2 Great White Egret (field right side drive way in), 1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker (dead tree), 6 Fieldfare (trees way in), 1 Stonechat, 25+ Chaffinch, 3 Meadow Pipit,
1 Water Pipit
Stratford:
1 Goosander (f), 1 Water Pipit
Herriotts End:
6 Shelduck (pond)
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| 21-10-16 Jack Snipe at Chew(Ian Stapp) Seen at Aust today but from earlier sunny days |
